Intelligent tutoring module for a 3Dgame-based science e-learning platform

The three-dimensional (3D) game-based intelligent science tutoring system (GIST) is an e- learning platform for science. The individual complexity of 3D games and conventional intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) results in extra complexities in system design and development of GIST. It is significant to develop practical GIST, not just to seek the powerful ones. The main contribution of this paper is the lightweight modelling of the intelligent tutoring module based on the brief-desire-intention (BDI) framework. The tutoring module, which is implemented by integration of the BDI framework into a game actor, can be able to suggest to each student specific learning tasks based on his/her learning histories. As a study case, algebra-based physics are intentionally chosen as the learning contents in this 3D game-based learning system, since the most of existing 3D game-based learning systems only focused on the qualitative understanding of physical concepts. Our proposed modelling is only based on the BDI reasoning mechanism, so it can be easily extended to obtain practical GIST by using standard game engines. © IBERAMIA and the authors.